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● Claims the first officers on the scene escalated the situation instead of trying to defuse it

●CCTV footage which questions officers’ claims a female officer was kicked and stamped on by Sheku

On the morning of his arrest, Sheku had taken MDMA and the drug known as Flakka and become aggressive with a pal.

He was restrained by six officers, lost consciousness and died at hospital later. Days later, Scottish Police Federation lawyer Peter Watson said: “a petite female police officer was subjected to a violent and unprovoked attack by a very large man who punched, kicked and stamped on her.”

The CCTV shows Sheku knocks the woman to the ground. But police restraint expert Eric Baskind, of Liverpool John Moore University, told the BBC: “I can see no evidence of two stamping attacks on the officer on the ground.”

Sheku suffered 23 injuries. His cause of death was noted as “sudden death in a man intoxicated…[drugs] while under restraint.”

The Scottish Government say they are considering a public inquiry into the death.

Police Scotland said they could not comment while the case remained open.